..to investigate secular changes in mean birth weight and the prevalence of LBW and SGA in Surinamese South Asian babies, and 2. to assess differences between Surinamese South Asian and Dutch Caucasian neonates born 2006-2009...

Reference chart of inspiratory muscle strength: a new tool to monitor the effect of pre-operative training

..We show how the solution may be used to develop and support profiles for the elderly. Another potential application is to track the individual development of the elderly, thereby objectifying personalized medicine. ..

..stefvanbuuren.nl/puberty. The stage line diagram expresses status and tempo of discrete changes on a continuous scale. Wider application of these measures scores opens up new analytic possibilities...

Stef van BuurenTNO Quality of Life, Leiden, The Netherlands and University of Utrecht, The NetherlandsStat Methods Med Res 16:219-42. 2007

..The JM approach introduced biases in the reference curves, whereas FCS did not. The paper concludes that FCS is a useful and easily applied flexible alternative to JM when no convenient and realistic joint distribution can be specified...

..This would suggest that in countries without a newborn screening program for CF, FTT could be used as a clinical screening tool. The aim of this study is to assess the diagnostic performance of FTT for identifying children with CF...

..However, the effectiveness of slowed growth as a tool for identifying children with CD is unknown. Our aim is to study the diagnostic efficiency of several growth criteria used to detect CD children...

The world's tallest nation has stopped growing taller: the height of Dutch children from 1955 to 2009

..This study looks at whether this trend in the world's tallest nation is continuing. We consider the influence of the geographical region, and of the child and parental education, on changes in height...

The diagnostic work up of growth failure in secondary health care; an evaluation of consensus guidelines

..This resulted in guidelines for referral. In this study we evaluate the referral pattern of short stature in primary health care using these guidelines, comparing it with cut-off values mentioned by the WHO...

..If similar dropout mechanisms operate in the Multicentre Growth Reference Study, then the WHO weight-for-age standards are expected to be systematically different from those for the entire group of 1,743 infants...

..To assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children living in the Netherlands and compare the findings with the Third and Fourth National Growth Studies carried out in 1980 and 1997, respectively...

The Steep Ramp Test in Dutch white children and adolescents: age- and sex-related normative values

..8 years, 5 months earlier than in Dutch girls. BMI of Turkish children was higher than that of Dutch children at all ages. BMI SDS was associated with birth weight and the duration of stay of the mother in the Netherlands...

Increase in prevalence of overweight in Dutch children and adolescents: a comparison of nationwide growth studies in 1980, 1997 and 2009

..The validity of the rule of thumb that infants may have a weight loss of 10% in the first days after birth is unknown. We assessed the validity of this and other rules to detect breast-fed infants with hypernatraemic dehydration...

..To develop and evaluate two artificial neural network (ANN) models based on single-sensor accelerometer data and an ANN model based on the data of two accelerometers for the identification of types of physical activity in adults...

Trends in a life threatening condition: morbid obesity in dutch, Turkish and Moroccan children in The Netherlands

Paula van DommelenDepartment of Life Style, TNO, Leiden, The NetherlandsPLoS ONE 9:e94299. 2014

..Morbid obesity can be a life threatening condition. The aim of our study is to assess the trend in morbid obesity in The Netherlands among children of Dutch origin since 1980, and among children of Turkish and Moroccan origin since 1997...

The impact of height during childhood on the national prevalence rates of overweight

Paula van DommelenDepartment of Life Style, TNO, Leiden, The NetherlandsPLoS ONE 9:e85769. 2014

..0,2.1, …,3.0) in kg/m(p) during childhood is most accurate in predicting adult overweight...

Response Conversion for improving comparability of International Physical Activity data

..7% (95% CI 11.5-15.9%) of the children referred to a general paediatric outpatient clinic were or had been on a diet. However, it is unknown how many children in a random population are or have been on a diet...